Care Age of Brookfield

In addition to earning a strong overall score, this nursing home performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our nursing grade analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Adding to its profile, this nursing home also received a grade of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is an above average score in this area. Our short-term care grades are arguably more meaningful for people in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 4.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it excelled in inspections, with a B in that category. It performed better than most facilities in this category. Inspection grades account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this area generally have very few severe deficiencies. It doesn't appear that we have information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Without having access to all of the deficiency related data for this facility, it ended up being difficult to really assess the place in the inspections category.

Moving on to our next category, we gave this facility a grade of D for long-term care. This is the facility's worst category grade. Unfortunately, this score hurt the nursing home's overall profile to a certain degree. For residents seeking a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 98.34254 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. To our surprise, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.